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A little breakdown on the red SAB weapons:

  • They cost tokens (8 to 16), a full set is 200 crimson assassin tokens.
  • You can only get them through tokens (account bound, not through reward tracks or anything)
  • You can get 2 tokens a day (one from dailies, another 8 for a set of 8 dailies from the repeatable achievement)
  • This year's event lasts 22 days, so you can get 44 of those 200 tokens.
  • We'll need around 5 years in total (without missing many dailies) to complete the associated rare collection / get the backpack reward.

I know, this is a reaaaaaally rare problem, but for me, it's the only missing collection (aside from some BL weapon collections) and I won't be able to complete it before 2021. It will sit there forever until then. Not all of you are completionists, but I'm sure a big chunck of you will understand why that's bugging me. (I was unable to get many tokens last year unfortunately, but RL > GW2)

I just wanted to maybe get a response from Anet if this is intended as a long term goal or if there's any chance to increase the availability of those skins.

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over 6 years ago - /u/anet_mattp - Direct link

Hey all. Just wanted to pop in and say that this was probably not our most thought-through achievement. We kept it on standard with the other SAB backpack (SABackpack?) collections, but didn't really consider the sort of pressure this would apply to you. We're investigating various options to rectify this. The basis of what we want to do is make it so you don't need all 16 weapon skins to get the backpack, but exactly what that looks like we haven't solved yet. Unfortunately, we won't be able to get a change out during this festival. Changing live achievements is very risky, and we want to make sure we have a solution that doesn't have the risk of losing player progress and works retroactively.